Vision and Values

New York Spring 2013 Semester

What are you passionate about? What is your vision? How do you translate your passion and vision into a business idea? How do you brainstorm ideas? What are the tools for evaluating your ideas? What are the makings of a good idea versus a bad idea? Should you pursue multiple ideas at once, and when should you focus on one?

Goal:

Develop your vision and ideas.

Date:

2013-03-27, 07:30 PM

Mentors

Charlie Kim Founder & CEO, Next Jump

Charlie founded Next Jump in 1994 in his college dorm room while going through school on financial aid. Next Jump grew through the first dot-com bubble to 150 employees, and survived the dot-com bust atering shrinking down to 4 employees in January 2002. The company becam...

Mark Newhouse Director of Strategy, SYPartners

Mark Newhouse is a start-up entrepreneur with a diverse background that includes new product development, business model innovation, user experience design, and brand strategy. Currently, Mark is part of the Strategy practice at SYPartners, the innovation and transformati...

Matt Mandell Digital Engagement Strategy, Mandell Enterprises

Matt is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of several companies, and currently operates a consulting firm specializing in revenue optimization for mid market B2B and B2C companies. He currently owns Store4Summer.com and SimpleStorage.com storage companies in the Washin...

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